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List of finished PhD students

Below is a list of all the PhD theses so far recommended by the Computer Science Degree Committee to the Board of Graduate Studies for approval (which can in some cases mean that there are still corrections to be made before final approval). Fully approved Cambridge PhDs are listed in the University Library thesis catalog .

All authors are encouraged to publish their approved thesis as a Computer Laboratory Technical Report . Where available, the table below links to that public tech-report version of the thesis. Where available, it also links the local PDF version uploaded by the student , which now also includes files that were in the past collected by Lise Gough in /usr/groups/studentadmin/PhD_theses. (The local PDFs are only accessible to members of the Computer Laboratory and may in some cases not yet contain any final corrections required by the examiners.)

Note: If a Computer Laboratory research student's PhD is not listed here, then it might have been dealt with by the Mathematics Degree Committee (this includes any pre-1987 Computer Laboratory PhD) or by the Engineering Degree Committee (this applies to some early ones in the Digital Technology Group).

Newton catalogue: University Library Theses
Theses - Computer Science and Technology , Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository (We will automatically link to thesis copies uploaded to Apollo once that repository offers an API and captures the author’s CRSID.)
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